[NUC] Why Is My External Hard Drive (HDD) Slow When Connected to an NUC?

Q: [NUC] Why Is My External Hard Drive (HDD) Slow When Connected to an NUC?

Resolution Each manufacturer has a set of tools/utilities that may fix this issue. They usually come on the external HDD, but they can also usually be downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Examples: Seagate* SeaTools Western digital (WD) Drive Utilities There may be setting to allow a Sleep timer to be set. The default may be set to, ON and set to a certain time period. It's possible, the HDD sleep timer may conflict with the Windows sleep timer. Turn this setting to OFF and test the drive.

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Each manufacturer has a set of tools/utilities that may fix this issue. They usually come on the external HDD, but they can also usually be downloaded from the manufacturer's website.

Examples:

There may be setting to allow a Sleep timer to be set. The default may be set to, ON and set to a certain time period. It's possible, the HDD sleep timer may conflict with the Windows sleep timer.

Turn this setting to OFF and test the drive.

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[NUC] Why Is My External Hard Drive (HDD) Slow When Connected to an NUC?

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